Obviously his (SB's) LIES have caused SB to disappear. One of DV's imaginary friends?
Optimists close their eyes and pretend problems are non existent. Better to have open eyes, see the truths, acknowledge the negatives, and speak up for the people rather than the politicos and their rich cronies.
Well, still no comments from the cheerleader for high taxes---DV----truths about his dem buddies and the stealing from the taxpyaers to give handouts to their politically connected rich cronies, facts provided with documentation from official records.
Gosh, DV doesn't even have the nerve to complain that stating the truth is being negative!
i think your lyhing.. i checked the records. he does not have a star exemption for his city property.. call the assessor if u donl;t believe me. once again, lying, lying. lying
and I am 100 percent certain he is lying, just as you always do.. you are a pathetic waste who has way too much time on his hands.. is that because you are unemployed? are u collecting welfare? I know Morris does not have a star on sch property, cause I checked. therefore, someone is lying and it ainlt me
call the city assessor and ask. dude. the city assessor is my source... drop a dime and make the call,.. two seconds.
OH WHERE, OH WHERE HAS THE SB NAME GONE? OH WHERE OH WHERE CAN IT BE?
Just another imaginary friend, probably forgot a password and can't post.
OR
The TRUTH has proved his LIES and he has gone into hiding way in the corner of the basement
Optimists close their eyes and pretend problems are non existent. Better to have open eyes, see the truths, acknowledge the negatives, and speak up for the people rather than the politicos and their rich cronies.
Um, when you buy a new house and change your residence, the STAR exemption is one of the first things you think about. I can see this happening fairly frequently when say, an elderly person moves into some kind of senior living and the family can't sell the house, they might not even think about it, but these people who receive money from taxes, like Morris and Ely, surely they have to be more savvy. Also, if the city employees were on the ball, they would be checking this kind of thing without being told to. In any case, good work by M/C and others bringing this to an end. Why should some people have their homes seized for owing back taxes while others don't pay all they owe? This charlatan, and Ely as well, is a large part of the reason people are stuck with high tax bills on homes that are unable to be sold. Why should they get a break?
So exactly where is the oversite for these 'STAR exemption abusers'? What exactly do assessors do?
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Bravo MC1! Obviously the Gazetto uses this site for lead generation to alert tax cheats. No wonder the City is broke. On one hand Fat Morris takes banks off the tax rolls and on the other he takes a double exemption. Keep working together! The Rotterdam assessor also has alot of explaining to do. How many other connected idiots are taking multiple exemptions?
How are you all willing to bet that the Gazette will not address the issue of how they tried to cover-up the story?
There won't be any news article in the Gazette, for sure.
Optimists close their eyes and pretend problems are non existent. Better to have open eyes, see the truths, acknowledge the negatives, and speak up for the people rather than the politicos and their rich cronies.
Good job Mc1, Rachel and RP! It's not something that's awry-everything is awry. Everyone news organization uses this for lead generation. And the Times Union actually printed the story. There's some news.
So exactly where is the oversite for these 'STAR exemption abusers'? What exactly do assessors do?
allowing the politician/'leaders' to say "we saved you" "I will work for the tax payer, blah blah blah." we get nickeled and dimed to death....the reality is that if there were true oversight we wouldn't be able to afford those salaries and ESPECIALLY the freakin' future payouts for benefits, because you know at the podium, the current budgets are all that are talked about....forget the future they want a NOW vote....
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Morris did not know you have to notify the assessor's office yourself. Sounds plausible - EXCEPT, as Benny mentioned, you come across a question when you file for your new property, asking if you own any other property for which you are already receiving a STAR exemption. If you see that question, that should make you stop and think, "Why yes, I own a house already for which I receive the STAR exemption!" This would lead you to answer "yes" on the form. Seeing that question marked "yes" would lead to your second STAR request being denied. To keep you from accidentally getting two exemptions. Morris does not divulge why he did not mention his already having a primary residence elsewhere. Maybe he forgot about the house he already had? That can happen, can't it? You forget that you already have a house listed as your primary residence somewhere, or maybe you think that the question doesn't mean you, because you ceased to receive a Star exemption in Schenectady the moment you filled out a change of address form.
Remember, this is a man whose place of business was burgled, or not, and money may or may not have been taken, which may or may not have been proceeds from a show the night before, and nobody knew how much money the show took in anyway because how do you figure out something like that? Do you really expect him to be able to keep track of things like where he lives?
How are you all willing to bet that the Gazette will not address the issue of how they tried to cover-up the story?
There won't be any news article in the Gazette, for sure.
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....don't be fooled here!! OF COURSE the gazetto will address the issue. Damage control is what they do best!!!
Morris was scamming and he knew it. So did the assessors. They all turned a blind eye....like they are doing with Ely the criminal and God only knows how many more are getting a free pass!! It is disgusting to think of ALL the folks who belong to the 'friends and family club' that are NOT paying taxes......and KNOW full well that the overburdened, working, taxpayers are shouldering the entire cost!!!
WE WON'T GO ANYWHERE NEAR DOWNTOWN AND SUPPORT ANY OF THOSE THIEVES!!!!!
Again......great job guys and girls!!!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
The only thing that Morris does best is ripping off the taxpayers AND the City of Schenectady over and over and over again.
He leaves the City and knowingly leaves his STAR exemption in place. I mean, why do the right thing and pay his fair share? Taking the STAR in the City is a considerable savings being that the taxes are so freakin' high!!! Morris is no idiot, he knows a STAR exemption will save him hundreds.
And paying the City back??? Are they going to give him the Plex pleasure and allow him to pay off his back taxes in 20 years without any interest or penalties?
Well, Ely is getting kicked out of MA, maybe his still in place STAR will be put to use when he slithers his way back into the City.
Obama's 2013 Arts Budget Focuses On Education, Mitigating NEA Cuts Huffington Post | By Lucas Kavner Posted: 08/31/2012 3:05 pm Updated: 08/31/2012 3:39 pm
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Yesterday the Huffington Post explored Mitt Romney's plan to gut federal arts funding, as part of our Shadow Convention feature. Here's our breakdown of President Obama's plans for the arts.
While Mitt Romney has touted a budget plan that would eliminate funding for the NEA, PBS, and NPR, President Obama has planned a five percent increase in arts spending for his 2013 budget.
In February Obama announced his budget plans, which include 5.5 percent increases for the National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities, pushing their subsidy up to $154 million. While this wouldn't fully mitigate the cuts to the NEA enacted under Obama last year, it reverses the trend of a declining NEA budget since its peak at $175 million in 1992, under George Bush Sr.
A blogger for nonprofit arts advocate Americans for the Arts points out that the biggest funding increase for an NEA program would go to the "Our Town Initiative," which would see its budget increase from $5 to 10 million. That program awards grants to small communities around the country, with populations less than 200,000. With the increase in funds, Our Town grants could be awarded to 115 communities in 2013.
This is a sharp turn from Obama's 2011-2012 budget, which cut NEA funding by 13.3 percent, reducing the organization's grantmaking abilities up to 24.6 percent. Indeed, his proposed budget for next year shows a renewed commitment to that agency.
The Smithsonian Institution, the world's largest museum and research complex, is also slated to benefit under an Obama administration. Under the President's new plan, the Institution would receive a 3.7 percent funding boost, as well as $85 million reserved in capital expenses for the construction of a National Museum of African American History and Culture. The plan would, however, necessitate funding cuts from the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Obama is also proposing an infusion into arts education in under-served neighborhoods. Acting on data that suggests children with higher exposure to the arts perform better in school, his "Turnaround Arts" program picked eight schools across the country to bolster with new supplies, educator training, instruments and arts curricula. The program made headlines when Obama enlisted Hollywood figures to promote it, roping in Kerry Washington, Forest Whitaker, Sarah Jessica Parker, and other known entities to help with fundraising, among other duties.
During a speech Obama made at the 2011 National Medal of Arts and National Humanities ceremony, he addressed a room of artists and indicated a promise of support:
"The arts and the humanities do not just reflect America. They shape America," he said. "And as long as I am President, I look forward to making sure they are a priority for this country." As far as his personal art tastes go, Obama's are a fairly open book. The L Magazine recently ran a feature detailing his personal collection, and artistic endeavors. These include a poem he wrote for his undergraduate literary journal, amidst works by American artists of note.
This post is part of the HuffPost Shadow Conventions 2012, a series spotlighting three issues that are not being discussed at the national GOP and Democratic conventions: The Drug War, Poverty in America, and Money in Politics.
HuffPost Live will be taking a comprehensive look at the corrupting influence of money on our politics on September 5th from 12-4 pm ET and 6-10 pm ET. Click here to check it out -- and join the conversation.
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Obama's 2013 budget calls for 5% increase for arts and culture February 14, 2012 | 6:27 am 7
President Obama’s proposed 2013 budget, released Monday, calls for a 5% increase in spending for three cultural grantmaking agencies and three Washington, D.C., arts institutions.
Obama aims to boost outlays from $1.501 billion to $1.576 billion, encompassing the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities (NEA and NEH), the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the Smithsonian Institution, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the National Gallery of Art.
The arts and humanities endowments each would get a 5.5% boost, to $154.255 million -- nearly restoring cuts announced in December. But if Congress approves the president’s proposal for the fiscal year that begins in October 2012, the NEA and NEH will still be well short of the $167.5 million each was set to receive before two separate rounds of cuts instigated by Congressional Republicans during 2011.
Obama is proposing $231.9 million for IMLS, a $439,000 reduction.
The Smithsonian Institution, by far the heavy hitter of federal cultural spending, would receive $856.8 million -- a 3.7% hike for its operating budget, which would rise to $660.3 million, and a 12.3% increase in capital expenditures, to $196.5 million. The biggest capital expense would be $85 million, to continue construction on the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
The National Gallery of Art is also in line for a nice raise: Obama is calling for a 5.2% increase in its operating budget (to $120 million) and an $8.5-million increase in spending for renovations and repairs, up to $23 million. The total, $143 million, would be an 11.2% increase. The Kennedy Center would sustain an $883,000 cut (2.4%), to $36 million.
Obama also wants to spend $445 million -- unchanged from the current level -- on the Corp. for Public Broadcasting, whose budget includes some grants to cultural programming. Funding for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum would be $51.8 million, a $1-million increase.
Robert Lynch, president of Americans for the Arts, a leading Washington-based arts advocacy group, praised the proposed increase in arts grantmaking: “The White House is sending a clear messsage that it understands the importance of the creative sector to our communities and the economy,” he said in a written statement.
Obama, for his part, cast the arts as a unifying force on Monday in a brief afternoon speech at the White House, before conferring this year’s National Medal of Arts and National Humanities Medal to recipients including actor Al Pacino, visual artists Will Barnet and Martin Puryear, and poet John Ashbery (pianist Andre Watts missed the ceremony).
“Equal to the impact you have on each of us every day as individuals is the impact you have on us as a society. And we are told we're divided as a people, and then suddenly the arts have this power to bring us together and speak to our common condition,” the president said.
He was clearly overlooking the “culture wars” of the late 1980s and early 1990s, which spelled doom for NEA grants to individual artists and resulted in funding cuts from which the agency, whose annual budget stood at $176 million in 1992, still hasn’t recovered. To return to that level in inflation-adjusted spending power, the NEA would need a budget hike to $282.2 million, or nearly double what Obama is proposing.
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
President Obama’s proposed budget for the 2012 fiscal year includes cuts to funding for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Under the proposed budget, each organization’s budget would drop by 13 percent.
The cuts would mean a drop in funding from $168 million this fiscal year to $146 million next year. The National Endowment for the Arts is working with its sister agency, the National Endowment for the Humanities, to better coordinate and/or consolidate their administrative functions in areas of mutual interest. Such efforts will help to reduce overhead costs at both Endowments, which could produce savings that can be reallocated to partially offset some of the grants programs. In other words, cooperation between the two organizations could mean lower operating costs, savings which could then go back towards funding grants to arts organizations.
The Smithsonian Institution, on the other hand, sees a request for a budget raise, largely to provide funds for the renovation of older facilities and the construction of the upcoming National Museum of African American History and Culture, planned to open in 2015 but the victim to many starts and stops. The White House is also asking for an $8 million increase in operating funds for the National Gallery of Art, from $111 million in FY 2010 to $119 million in FY 2010. The budget also supports the continuation of the NGA’s infrastructural capital projects already underway at both the East and West Buildings.
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
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Bravo MC1! Obviously the Gazetto uses this site for lead generation to alert tax cheats. No wonder the City is broke. On one hand Fat Morris takes banks off the tax rolls and
